My god - this guy needs a serious smackdown - nanotech myth

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-14 07:34am

http://kier.3dfrontier.com/forums/showt ... to=newpost

I mean jesus christ can you believe this?

Come on over there and smack some sense into this Col. Panic guy.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2002-11-14 07:40am

I was actually lurking there and reading that thread... I wondered how long it would take you to bring it up here.

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-14 07:43am

Crown wrote:I was actually lurking there and reading that thread... I wondered how long it would take you to bring it up here.

Should I take that as insult?

Anyway, we obviously need more people than just me to convince this guy of his errors.

Post by **NecronLord** » 2002-11-14 07:47am

*shudder*

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2002-11-14 09:11am

No no, not an insult. Just an observation is all.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-11-14 05:00pm

Somebody summarize Panic's fault for me please.

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-11-14 05:11pm

Shinova wrote:Somebody summarize Panic's fault for me please.

He thinks that self-replicating nanotech=ability to build anything at little to no cost, regardless of scale.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-11-14 05:12pm

data_link wrote:
Shinova wrote:Somebody summarize Panic's fault for me please.
He thinks that self-replicating nanotech=ability to build anything at little to no cost, regardless of scale.

And he was saying that in favor of Death Star construction by the Feds?

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-11-14 05:15pm

Shinova wrote:
data_link wrote:
Shinova wrote:Somebody summarize Panic's fault for me please.
He thinks that self-replicating nanotech=ability to build anything at little to no cost, regardless of scale.
And he was saying that in favor of Death Star construction by the Feds?

Correct.

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2002-11-14 05:46pm

Christ, that is just sad.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2002-11-14 10:48pm

It's really no different than the Trekkie starship-replicator myth, or the replicator-based defense of communism (you wouldn't believe how many idiots E-mail me saying that communism would work in Trek because replicators make all work obsolete).

The Dark · Post by **The Dark** » 2002-11-15 12:27am

Another thing you could point out (I'm only on page 5, so you may have mentioned this) is that his asteroid won't be big enough to build a Death Star, and most likely won't contain the exotic elements necessary to build the weapons components. Carbon, nickel, iron, and magnesium don't have a whole lot of use in superlaser technology.

Oops, never mind, just read FleetAdmiral's post on page 6. Although I would still ask where he's planning on getting those materials from, considering that replicators have a hard time with certain quantum combinations (as shown by the inability to replicate, oh, DILITHIUM).

And I have no idea how he thinks building something one atom at a time is quicker than refining a metal, molding it, and transporting it where it needs to go in bulk (since we know ISDs are not huge ships, and a cargo ship that size would be able to haul...I don't know, two or three megacraploads of stuff?).

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-11-15 12:43am

Could they be talking about energy->matter conversions?

His Divine Shadow · Post by **His Divine Shadow** » 2002-11-15 01:54am

Meh, nomatter what anyone of us say it's not going to get through.
Therefore I'll be e-mailing actual scientists working on nano-tech.